Facebook Pages are crucial for today's online marketing and they can be made much more effective if they include one or more applications. On most pages a so called Like Gate is used to engage visitors to become fans of the page by providing them with some new useful content or some discount coupons. Authorization of an application is usually not required, but it can also be used to get data on the user. A very useful feature is publishing stories to user profile, to engage user's friends to visit a page and increase the number of fans.

ASP.NET Controls for Facebook Page applications

Facebook Visual Kit contains 20 Facebook ASP.NET Controls. Almost all controls are applicable for usage in Facebook Page applications, but the following list contains the most used ones. To see the complete list look at Facebook ASP.NET Controls.

ASP.NET Control	Description
Facebook Like Gate	Facebook Like Gate is very popular feature used in Facebook Page applications to provide different content depending on the user fan status.
Facebook Invite All Friends	Facebook Invite All Friends ASP.NET control is used to provide invitation of lot of friends without tedious selection one by one.
Facebook Request Dialog	Facebook Request Dialog is new Facebook component used for inviting friends to start using Facebook application of Facebook Connect website, and for requesting particular action from friends who already use the application.
Facebook Stream Publish	Facebook Stream Publish Popup is used to publish stories on user wall, friends' wall or on page wall if the user is admin.
Facebook Like Button	Like button allows users to share some content from the website with their friends.
Facebook Send Button	Facebook Send Button is used to share info about interesting content with just a couple of (presumably) interested Facebook friends.
Facebook Permissions	Facebook Permission control is used to enable user to add permission to Facebook application or Facebook Connect web site, like sending email, status updates.
Facebook Share Button	Facebook Share Button is used to share interesting links of web pages, Facebook application, Facebook Connect web site or Facebook Page with user friends.
Facebook Tabs	Facebook Tab control is used to make tabs inside Facebook iFrame application with same style as Facebook FBML applications more easier.
Enable Resizable iFrame	Enable Resizable iFrame control is used to enable iFrame for Facebook application located inside Facebook layout, so it can fit inside with dynamic application content.
Subscribe to Event	Facebook Subscribe to Event ASP.NET control is used to inform an application by executing event handler about an event made by a user.
Initialize Facebook Graph API	Initialization of Facebook Graph API is made by calling of particular JavaScript with application id and secret...